PROS Announces Sponsorship of IQPC B2B Pricing, Revenue Optimization Summit

HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--PROS (NYSE: PRO), the world leader in pricing and revenue management software, today announced its sponsorship of the second IQPC Pricing Strategy and Revenue Optimization Summit. Scheduled for July 25-27 at The Millennium Knickerbocker Hotel in Chicago, the event attracts speakers and pricing executives from some of the world’s largest enterprises. For the first time, both Microsoft and PROS are co-sponsors of the Summit.

“The IQPC Revenue Optimization Summit creates an exceptional learning environment where pricing leaders from some of the world’s leading companies will gather to share best practices through peer-to-peer meetings and discussions”

Craig Zawada, PROS Senior Vice President of Pricing Excellence, will deliver the keynote. Zawada is the co-author of “The Pricing Advantage,” one of the industry’s most highly regarded and pragmatic books on the subject of pricing. Additional speakers including executives from Navistar International Corporation, NewPage Corporation, The Coca-Cola Company, British Petroleum, National Semiconductor, Scotia Bank and APC by Schneider Electric, among many others. PROS Chief Marketing Officer Tim Girgenti will serve as master of ceremonies for the event.

“The IQPC Revenue Optimization Summit creates an exceptional learning environment where pricing leaders from some of the world’s leading companies will gather to share best practices through peer-to-peer meetings and discussions,” said Girgenti. “These events are paramount to advancing pricing thought leadership for B2B companies, and we are excited to sponsor this summit with Microsoft and IQPC who share our vision for bringing this event to the market place.”

“Companies around the globe continue to be acutely focused on the strategic importance of their pricing practices in today’s complex global economy,” said Ellyn Foltz, worldwide managing director of process manufacturing industries for Microsoft. “At the Summit, pricing leaders will share how they are enabling their organizations to meet customer demands and still deliver the profitability required by their stakeholders.”

To learn more, visit the website at http://www.prospricing.com/Pricing-Events.aspx or visit the event site at http://www.PriceAndRevenueSummit.com.

About IQPC and Customer Management IQ

Customer Management IQ, a division of IQPC, is a forum for sharing ideas, best practices and solutions within the business community. The company provides educational conferences, training courses and expositions for Customer Management executives to network and learn the latest Customer Management developments and trends occurring in organizations today. Customer Management IQ concentrates on creating an interactive experience featuring practical, objective and up-to-date insight from leading practitioners.

Annual events include: Pricing Strategy and Revenue Optimization, Customer Experience Summit, Call Center Week, Debt Collections Management Summit, Customer Self-Service Summit, Customer Complaints Management Summit and more.

To learn more about Customer Management IQ, please visit www.customermanagementiq.com.

About PROS

PROS Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: PRO) is a leading provider of prescriptive enterprise pricing and revenue management software products, specializing in price analytics, price execution, and price optimization. By using PROS' software products, companies gain insight into their pricing strategies, identify pricing-based profit leaks, optimize their pricing decision making and improve their business processes and financial performance. PROS' software products implement advanced pricing science, which includes operations research, forecasting and statistics. PROS high performance software architecture supports real-time high volume transaction processing and allows PROS to handle the processing and database requirements of the most sophisticated and largest customers, including customers with hundreds of simultaneous users and sub-second electronic transactions.

PROS provides professional services to configure its software products to meet the specific pricing needs of each customer. PROS has implemented over 500 solutions across a range of industries in more than 50 countries.

Founded in 1985, PROS is headquartered in Houston, Texas. Today, PROS has over 400 employees, more than 100 with advanced degrees and over 25 with Ph.D.s. To learn more about PROS, please visit www.prospricing.com.

Forward-looking Statements

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